The US Navy has banned all its personnel stationed in Japan from drinking
after one of their number crashed into two Japanese cars
drunk-driving the wrong way down a highway during a moratorium on off-base drinking prompted by a US base worker’s murder of a 20-year-old Japanese girl.

21-year-old Petty Officer 2nd Class Aimee Mejia had been driving on the wrong side of the road before inevitably hitting two vehicles and injuring two of their occupants, being found to have a blood-alcohol level nearly six times higher than Japan’s legal limit.

That the incident occurred during a ban on off-base drinking imposed after 32-year-old
ex-US Marine and base worker Kenneth Franklin Shinzato (an African-American man who took the surname of his Japanese wife) raped and killed a 20-year-old Japanese girl, stuffing her body in a suitcase and dumping it in the jungle, has helped propel anti-American sentiment in Okinawa to incandescent levels.

By the time the authorities caught up with Shinzato, a contractor who lived near Kadena base with his wife and infant child, he had already attempted suicide via sleeping pills, but once in custody he confessed to dumping her body, and was arrested on charges of improperly disposing of a corpse, charges later upgraded to rape and murder.

The woman’s last LINE message to her boyfriend indicated she had gone for a walk, but eventually a police search based on Shinzato’s testimony would uncover her remains, having been reduced to near skeletal condition after a month in the tropical heat. She had been raped, stabbed and bludgeoned.

After their own personnel flagrantly violated their efforts to contain the outrage all this caused, the relatively drastic ban seems only to be a temporary response to the string of recentcrimes caused by US forces stationed in Japan.

Naturally there is little faith that the country-wide confinement will do any good considering that incidents in past years had provoked similar curfews only to lead to brutal crimes regardless, the underlying problem of concentrating tens of thousands of America’s trained killers amongst a defenseless Japanese populace not being solved.

The ever vigilant protesters fed up with the US’s military presence in Okinawa have also taken to action as a result of the most recent atrocities, scheduling a rally for June 19th that they believe will have more attendees than the former 1995 protest made in response to the abduction and rape of a 12-year old girl.

The Japanese government also has plans to issue 100 more police officers and 20 more patrol cars to Okinawa to further aid in controlling the decades long American crime wave (or possibly just to keep protesters from interfering with the bases of their masters), although this too barely addresses the underlying issues.

Watch a crime or court drama some time. As soon as the authorities have a confession, even if it’s for a lesser charge than what they assume the suspect is otherwise guilty of, they will charge them and take them into custody. This makes investigating and proving those more serious related crimes, not to mention interrogating the criminal and keeping them from disappearing, much easier. As is stated in the article, the dumping charge was later upgraded to cover the rape and murder as well.

I am Australian, but my early years of watching American TV shows like Sesame Street has given me a slight “Yankee” accent. Visiting Japan, many people avoid me until I inform them that I’m not American, but Australian, then they’re friendly.

“The Katsuyama killing incident in 1945, was a killing of three African American Marines by Okinawans from the Katsuyama village near Nago, Okinawa after the Battle of Okinawa, shortly before the end of the war in the Pacific. Many years later some of the villagers confessed that every weekend three black United States Marines had allegedly been visiting the village around that time and every time they violently took the village women into the hills with them and raped them. When the Marines started to confidently carry out their weekly ritual unarmed, the villagers reportedly overwhelmed the men one time and killed all three. Their bodies were hidden in the nearby cave out of fear for retaliation against the village, a village secret until 1997. Since the killings, the cave has been known as Kurombo Gama, meaning “niggers’ cave”

Dude it doesn’t matter. If you aren’t Japanese you are gonna get the looks no matter what and I’m a white guy. If you understand even a little Japanese its fun to hear the dumb shit they say about you because they think you don’t know.

As a Navy Veteran, I completely agree with this decision. Young sailors do like their alcohol and if they cannot act appropriately in another country, then their alcohol privileges should be denied. Those sailors represent the United States just as all U.S. military members all over the world do.

Well the dude was drunk and they drive on the left side of the road in Japan and on the right side in the US guess the man forgot the difference between the two country… Though driving drunk is still unforgivable even more so when you end up killing someone or causing an accident…

Those are the 7 continents. “America” is in the name of two of those continents, but it is not the name of any of those continents. North and South America are often collectively referred to as “The Americas”, but the only “America” is the USA. Been that way longer than any of us have been alive. Read a book sometime, anon.

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It IS racist to use a racist slur, however, and it IS racist to brand an entire race as being somehow bad or evil (that’s by definition what racism is), so stick your racism up your own ass, with walnuts.

sweden and germany have accepted african immigrants rape and violent crime have skyrocketed. sweden is now just behind south africa in rapes. blacks in america also commit violent crimes rape,theft,and murder disproportionately to thier population size. in their natural state in african countries they kill,and murder each other. just look at darfur,and rwanda for proof of the natural and violent nature of these subhumans. the world would be better off without them.

As an American you should realize that all US military members are held to a much higher standard than regular civilians. Yes there will always be bad apples, however the punishments for their actions are usually far more severe. Military members also get way more publicity every time someone does something stupid, so it’s more common for it to end up on the news.

Being an American gives you no authority on the issue. As far as I’m concerned your just another filthy keyboard anon who thinks he knows whats best. Cry hard fag. Soldiers aren’t prisoners and when you treat them like they are what do you think happens? Cause I might have to remind you that they hold all the good guns.

Coincidences like this happen to often, US man drunk drives into momorial of woman mudered by US drunk, senator opposed to gay marrage found getting blowjobs by men in bathroom, senator for transgender using whatever bathrooms they want, has her daughters scared shitless by 3 transgenderdaughin the bathroom

I use to live in Okinawa and coming from the locals I was told they honestly don’t mind us being over there. In fact I was told by them they benefit a lot economically from the US Military being there. It’s mainland Japan’s companies that push protests in Okinawa. This is at least what locals were telling me about 7-8 years ago. when I was over there.

The getting off of Okinawa thing has been talked about forever but neither government wants to just give anything up to get it started, so nothing gets done.

Not banned from drinking, banned from being near public places without Japanese supervisor or watchdog. Restrictions on their actions, so citizens can feel a little safe about it (maybe or kick them out the island).

Sorry no if you look at it most was white males. I was even in the news for saving a Japanese man in 2008. The rape that happen before this was a an white male and the one 2 years ago was 2 white males. Going back to the end of ww2 most was white males. I lived in Japan as a navy sailor in yokosuka most crime are done by non American white males

Not sure about the Japanese military. However the rate of crimes, both major and misdemeanors are way lower among the U.S military versus the local populace. Like everyone in the world they like to blame their problems on an easily identifiable other.

From what I heard from my family living and stationed over there, there’s apparently a Joint Command meeting taking place in the near future between the Commander of the Pacific Fleet, Commander of Pacific Air Forces, and Commander of the Pacific Army to determine whether or not there will be a nationwide ban on leave in Japan in general. No word yet, though.

While I agree that this druken shitbag should be punished to the fullest possible extent (unfortunately the Navy stopped flogging long ago), it is racist to just assume that all hairy, barbarian American sailors are the same. Most are good people and professionals serving their country (and yours) while making sacrifices by being away from their homes and families.

Whenever you have a large body of people there’s always going to be a small number of malefactors and degenerates among them that do not reflect the integrity of the body as a whole.

For all those saying you should expel all American servicemen from Japan, that’s fine by me. Just don’t forget to put out the doormats that says “Welcome” in Chinese.

It’s not racist at all. I saw all those drunk soldiers in Naha and they were truly frightening. I’m almost 180 cm tall and I prefered to cross the avenue, think about most of Japanese people are way smaller than me.

“It’s racist to just assume that all hairy, barbarian American sailors are the same”
Meanwhile, USA retards think all Mexicans are drug dealers, murderers and rapists and nobody cares. Fucing hypocrites.

We’re still waiting for Japan to apologize for all the women they raped during ww2. For the Baby bayoneting contests they had (Not making this up) for all of the civilians they murdered, and all of the POWs they executed, experimented on, and tortured.

Yes, it’s terrible that these two recent events happened. But NOBODY from Japan has the right to feel like they can bitch after all the horrendous stuff they’ve done and never once apologized for.

At least the Americans are trying to do something about the bad people. Japan gave them awards and medals!

All that was done by the “old government” with the mentality of “the Emperor wills it, so we are right”. All that vanished after WWII when Japan transitioned from a military power, to an economic one. Korean and Chinese citizens are still mounting protests against the Japanese government demanding apologies and compensation (which they give so as to try and appease them), then they roll around and do it again.

I lost a lot of respect for Americans after the 2011 Earthquake (I was there) and Facebook and Twitter was full of “it’s God’s revenge for Pearl Harbour!”. It’s time a lot of these people learned to let go.

you’re retarded that shit happened 70+ years ago,and dumbasses like you act like it happened last week. build a fucking bridge,and get over it. modern japan has nothing to do with it,and nothing to apologize for(although they have many,many times.)

Haha, yeah. Yes, the Axis power force. They sure loved Hitler. They bombed a base with a preemptive strike and were retaliated against. They commanded their own men to Kamikaze or their civilians to drown themselves. Guess who also uses that tactic. Oh yeah, terrorists.

They waved the white flag after two bombs. They’re not allowed to have a military and they bow down and accept it. Even after all this time they still don’t. Just their defense force.

Welcome to war jackass, where people don’t fight fair. If you seriously think that is bad then you shouldn’t even be talking about it. War isn’t about fighting honorably, it’s about winning and surviving. If you have a problem with that, then that’s your problem. The Japanese during WWII were far more nationalistic and willing to die for their country, their culture is founded upon loyalty, and I guarantee you that they would have pushed the US back. If 2 cities had to go in order to prevent the inevitable genocide that would have happened because the US would be taking over Japan instead of trying to just force their hand into surrendering, we might not be where we are today, because in terms of a ground war, Japan would have won that hands down.

Two atomic bombs on top of 4 years to defeat a tiny backwards country that were using terrorist tactics.

What other country needed to get nuked in order to surrender? Funny how you brush it off as just a couple bombs.

And on top of it all the US got so butthurt they wouldn’t let them have an army anymore because they didnt want to go through it all again. And they let the Germans have an army.

But really the question is whether or not they would be fine if the US left. Not whether they could take on the US again, considering the chucklefucks that make up the US armed forces today, I’m willing to bet a modern day Tojo would be propping his balls in the oval office.

I guess they don’t enforce it much as every other Japanese saleryman would end up loosing their license though as the impairment caused by a BAC of .03 is not even out of the statistical noise floor.
It usually is almost always those who are well above the US limit that end up causing accidents.

To be honest it is not as if Japanese people never drive drunk or never do the same crap some of those US soldiers do it stick out because they are foreigners but they aren’t any worse that Japaneses doing the same crap.

I agree. While crime in Japan is really low. Lets not pretend that Japan is full of puritans. They just go out of the way to frame foreigners as crime loving scumbags cause it fits their xenophobic mindset.

The Yakuza are just smart about their criminal behavior.

US servicemen going bonkers are just bulls in china shops. Lets not forget that a number of these servicemen are in Japan cause they can get out of jail by enlisting. some of these jugheads aren’t your “best and brightest”.

No they don’t really do the “jail or army” bullshit anymore. That shit stopped 30 years ago, I havent heard of a case like that since the tail end of Vietnam actually. I can’t believe people still believe shit like this. While a judge can punish a person by offering them a military job the military says no almost every time since they have plenty of non-fucked in the head recruits.

Oh he damn sure can (provided he is Japanese) but its funny that he has to insult people in their language. So he is a crying racist but has to use the language of the very races he hates to do it. Its ironic and funny. You know you don’t hear about it often but Japanese people are the most xenophobic people you will meet despite their “politeness”

This story is as old as the white hairs in my wrinkled old ass. By the way, motherfuck America’s epic fail military in Japan and anywhere else in the world for that matter. Go back to A”merry”kka and continue fucking that up. With Donald Trump as president, and his fat cock so far stuffed and stuck up her bleeding non virginal ass, will indeed “make her great again”. Huzzah! Donald Trump for president!

Japan by its own constitution cant “have its own army”
2nd, japan would be a half days work for China if china gets it act together and puts out an expeditionary force.
3. North Korea has a hard on for Japan as well
4. Russia for years sees japan as not in their best interests
5. the US forces are there to protect japan as much as for protection of other asian allies.
6. the started a fucking world war and one of the little ouchies for that is, if you lose, the country that beat you then helped rebuild your country and invested billions in the process as well as provied you with all of your current military arms for their puny self defense force, gets to keep a naval base there

Because the US Pacific force projection is based out of Japan. In the 50s it was the Korean war 60s and 70s it was Vietnam, now its North Korea and China. In fact its probably the US presence in the area that stops China from just rolling over surrounding areas and forcibly acquiring the various shitty islands it claims.

eehhh, they sound way different. The realistic roleplays vs just normal stuff, do not sound alike.

Also I like that stuff, but does not sound like what rape does as rape tends to be either more quiet or more I guess fill with a lot more sadness if I had to pin it down. Crying, actual screaming, and less held back sounds.

Based on the sounds they make during sex you would be confused too. Seriously does anyone actually like that mewling sound they make? If you don’t know what I am talking about go fuck one yourself or watch jav porn. Its seriously lame.

Uh no dude. Nazi Concentration camps alone caused more than 6 million deaths. And that doesn’t include those killed in the actual fighting or the Eizen Grupon massacres. Get ur facts straight shitbox before u start spouting bullshit. Its called “research,” u know that thing schools taught u but u were too busy beating off in classrooms to properly study.

I’m not your history teacher. Start here http://apjjf.org/-Charles-K.-Armstrong/3460/article.html , then read another book or source. Never believe just one tale. In short, the USAF wiped out every population center in North Korea with napalm, phosphor and other explosives. 3 million civilians dead. And that is just in Korea. In Vietnam they really doubled up on that.